scholarly journals Challenges for the Technological Augmentation of Open-Air Museums: Bridging Buildings, Artefacts and Activities

1970 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Luigina Ciolfi ◽  
Marc McLoughlin
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
A Site ◽  
Research And Design

This paper reports research and design work focused on enhancing visitor experience of an open-air museum, Bunratty Folk Park in County Clare (Ireland). We will discuss how existing work in the domain of museum technologies has so far dealt little with open-air sites. Our approach aimed at developing themes of participation and visitor contribution at a site that differs from indoor exhibitions on the grounds of size, structure and material on display. We will describe the background research and design research towards an interactive multi-device installation entitled “Reminisce” for Bunratty Folk Park, informed by a focus centred on visitor activities and their experience of place. We will then provide examples of visitors’ interactions with Reminisce in order to show how this approach can lead to successful design interventions. 

scholarly journals Over, Under, In-Between: Worker Housing Within an Industrial Ecology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason F. Carlow ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Design Work ◽  
American University ◽  
Worker Housing ◽  
Industrial Zones ◽  
Research And Design

The research and design work presented in this paper was organized and conducted through an advanced design studio at the Department of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah in the UAE. The premise of the studio was to create new housing units specifically designed for low income workers who are not eligible for corporate worker housing in the UAE and not permitted to live in family designated residential districts. These low income workers often struggle to find affordable housing within the industrial zones of the rapidly growing urban metropolis surrounding Dubai. A key design research question asked how housing could be built on spatially confined sites within an industrial zone and provide not only secure and healthful shelter for the residents, but programs and amenities that build a sense of community as well.

Development of a Prototype Design Process Recorder Based on Hypergraphs

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Hirose ◽  
David M. Cannon ◽  
Larry J. Leifer
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Recording Method ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Design Process Model ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Research And Design

Abstract We describe a design process recording method and a prototype implementation. They are being developed from data on several design projects, including an in-depth study of a 6-month long design effort, itself part of a multi-year aerospace research and design project. The work is also influenced by the larger context of other design research projects at Stanford. The recording method focuses on information generated in early stages of design that is at the same time easiest to capture and most useful to designers and engineers downstream. It does this by being based primarily on a design process model intended to reflect a designer’s point of view, and by taking advantage of practices that designers currently find useful. The method builds on the concept of an electronic notebook that has been described previously (Lakin et al., 1989). The record consists of connected pieces of information about the various concepts, notes, and documents that are central to an evolving design. We call the framework for the record a hypergraph: ‘graph’ because of its node-arc structure, and ‘hyper’ because it spans several types of information that are created during design work. To effectively convey the record’s contents to a downstream user, we propose a design story-teller style: the system’s response to a query takes the form of a storyboard of notes about related design episodes.

Dispersion and abundance of Maritrema arenaria in Semibalanus balanoides in north-east Ireland

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Carrol ◽  
W. I. Montgomery ◽  
R. E. B. Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Size Structure ◽  
Background Level ◽  
Host Population ◽  
Parasite Infection ◽  
Semibalanus Balanoides ◽  
Low Background ◽  
Digenean Trematode ◽  
North East ◽  
Parasitic Burden ◽  
A Site

ABSTRACTInfection of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides with the digenean trematode Maritrema arenaria was investigated at 17 sites along the Co. Down coastline. There was a low background level of infection. Abundance of M. arenaria, however, was substantially greater at sites close to fish factories and at a site close to a sewage works. Aggregation of M. arenaria in S. balanoides was least marked at low mean parasite burdens. The parasitic burden was related more closely to barnacle size at a site of heavy infection than at one with a low abundance. There was a significant association between height on the shore and number of encysted metacercariae in S. balanoides. This was independent of variation in host size. It is concluded that relationships that bring about overdispersion of digeneans, such as that between the size-structure of the host population and parasite infection, may be dependent on the overall abundance of the parasite.

Electronic Information Products to form the Humanized Design Research

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 2388-2391
Author(s):  
Zhi Liang Xia
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Operating Mode ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
Material Texture ◽  
Information Products ◽  
Equipment Development ◽  
Design Idea ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
External Form

Electronic information products based on ergonomics, on the basis of the research in the form in human research and design. From the electronic information products shape colour, modelling, material texture and interface aspects are studied, that "People-Oriented" design idea was fully manifested in person to use electronic devices, functional principle in operating mode, physiological, psychological, product semantics of human concern gives products, electronic equipment, more comfortable and pleasant that the external form of electronic information equipment development direction.

scholarly journals An Architectural Dialogue with the Eleatic Stranger

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christian Jacob Squire
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Eleatic Stranger ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Theory Of Forms

<p>Reports throughout New Zealand have highlighted a chronic and growing problem in our urban centres – the effects of alcohol abuse and binge drinking leave our youth vulnerable and unprotected. The results can sometimes be catastrophic. Makeshift paramedic tents have recently been erected in Wellington to provide aid and retreat, but these are temporary structures and only available two nights per week. The vulnerability of New Zealand’s youth occurs not only on nights with too much alcohol, but also in response to the daily stresses brought on by contemporary urban life. New Zealand youth suicide rates are the highest out of 30 OECD nations and more than twice the OECD average (Chapman). Likewise the secularization of contemporary urban society has resulted in the loss of spiritual retreats previously found within churches and religious centres. This thesis examines the need for a permanent urban retreat for all those who are temporarily vulnerable. The thesis investigates how architectural form can provide a new approach to urban retreat by critically engaging analogous theories found in the writings of Plato and Louis Kahn. Both Plato’s theory of Forms (discussed in Plato’s “Dialogues”) and Louis Kahn’s 1961 essay “Form and Design” are centred on the idea of achieving an enlightened state of mind, freeing the mind from the physical realm. Plato’s theory of Forms posits that the universe is separated into two realms: an intelligible realm and a sensible realm. All objects that exist in the sensible realm – perceivable to us by our senses – are merely imperfect shadows of their essences or Forms. By understanding this, we can free our minds from the distractions of life which so often lead to stress and despair. Plato’s theory of Forms has many parallels with the architectural theory of Louis Kahn, as evidenced in Kahn’s “Form and Design”. Kahn describes the ‘measurable’ and ‘immeasurable’ realms, which are analogous to Plato’s sensible and intelligible realms. This thesis critically engages these analogous theories of Plato and Kahn – achieving an enlightened state of mind, freeing the mind from the physical realm – to establish how architectural form can provide urban retreat for those who are temporarily vulnerable. The site for the design research investigation is the nameless alleyway in the Courtenay Place precinct which separates Wellington’s historic St James Theatre from The Mermaid bar and brothel – a site which symbolizes the conflicting stimuli to which our urban residents are now continually exposed.</p>

scholarly journals Experiential Learning vs Systematic Prescriptions in Engineering Design: A Crossroads for Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Gressfc ◽  
S. Li ◽  
R. W. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Classical Design ◽  
Classical Methodology ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Visual Domain

The systematic, non-experiential prescriptions of classical design methodology continue to have a strong presence in large segments of design research and education while another segment sees domain experience and consequent intuition and creativity as being key to successful design. In this paper the two approaches are outlined and the empirical research literature in human behaviour is employed to discern discrepancies and potential weaknesses. Results show that gaining experience in a domain intrinsically changes how one designs, which the classical methodology does not account for. For example, only designers with tactile and visual domain experience can abstract functions per the dictates of the classical (non-experiential) methodology, which means that they cannot have used the methodology to learn basic design in the first place – or did so only with great difficulty. This and other conflicts pose problems for the education of engineering design students, and to fathom their extent this paper surveys engineering design textbooks offered in Canada and the U. S.; all of the books are found to embrace the classical methodology. If they are to remain involved in preparing students for entry into industry then some aspects of their contained classical methodology must be supplanted by experiential approaches to design educatio

Large-scale patterns in habitat structure on subtidal rocky reefs in New South Wales

2000 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 255 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. L. Andrew ◽  
A. L. O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Sea Urchin ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Subtidal Rocky Reefs ◽  
A Site

Aerial photography was used to estimate the representation of shallow subtidal habitats in New South Wales. Sixty sites, each between 4 and 5 hectares, were mapped with Geographical Information Systems software using ortho-rectified images digitized from 1:8000-scale photographs and ‘ground truthed’ in the field by divers. Barrens habitat covered an estimated 50% (s.e. = 3.9) of nearshore reefs between Port Stephens and Disaster Bay. Coverage of barrens habitat was greatest in Disaster Bay (68%, s.e. = 6.7) and least south of Disaster Bay (1%, s.e. = 0.3). There were clear differences among localities in the area of reef within the mapped sites; those at Cape Howe, Nadgee, and Turingal were significantly smaller in area than all others. There was no clear latitudinal trend in these differences but there was evidence of sand inundation at a site at Nadgee, where the reef was small. Differences in the densities and size-structure of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersiiat 27 of the mapped sites provide a basis for testing relationships between the demography of this species and the persistence of the barrens habitat. The extensive coverage of the barrens habitat in New South Wales is likely to limit the productivity of the abalone industry. The development of a sea urchin fishery may have large impacts on habitat representation on nearshore reefs.

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